Speaker 1: Dating apps. I listen. I did a whole segment on
Speaker 1: After Midnight, my radio show about this, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that they are healthy. What's up, guys, Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the podcast, episode two oh five. Have Amber with
Speaker 1: me today.
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Speaker 1: You're with me in so many other things, but not
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Speaker 1: and we'll walk through them just like we're friends. We
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Speaker 1: coming at me, so we'll just read these as we go.
Speaker 1: Once again, Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com. First quest
Speaker 1: since says subject line dating apps. Hey, mister Smith, vague question.
Speaker 1: I was just wondering what is your opinion on dating apps,
Speaker 1: specifically Christian dating apps. And I've talked about this quite
Speaker 1: a bit and then I've gotten pushedback on it, for sure,
Speaker 1: but dating apps listen. I did a whole segment on
Speaker 1: After Midnight, my radio show about this, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that they are healthy. But I'm also not denying
Speaker 1: that a lot of people have met on traditional dating apps.
Speaker 1: And there will be people that would comment on this
Speaker 1: and say I met my husband on a dating app.
Speaker 1: And we've been married for seventeen years, and hey, I
Speaker 1: get it, and that's amazing. I think the problem is
Speaker 1: when it becomes the only option of choice, when you
Speaker 1: do have another choice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that. I can see that.
Speaker 3: I don't have any experience with dating apps because obviously
Speaker 3: I guess they were around, but we just never were
Speaker 3: part of any dating apps. So I think it's like
Speaker 3: you said, I think when you have other options where
Speaker 3: you could go out and meet somebody with your friends,
Speaker 3: or somebody could recommend somebody, or meet them through your family,
Speaker 3: or meet them through your church, or I think a
Speaker 3: lot of people just don't put on a true vision
Speaker 3: of who they are on those dating apps. Sure, you're
Speaker 3: always trying to talk yourself up. You're always trying to
Speaker 3: make yourself look better, and I think they show maybe
Speaker 3: the best version of themselves, and a lot of times
Speaker 3: they lie or they withhold things, and I think that's
Speaker 3: where you can get into trouble too.
Speaker 1: Get catfished. Listen to this On After Midnight. I told
Speaker 1: a story about Tender, the swipe right app that is
Speaker 1: now using artificial intelligence to pick your profile picture for you.
Speaker 1: You give it a bunch of pictures, It picks the profile,
Speaker 1: pick sure edits, it crops, it chooses it out of
Speaker 1: a bunch of them, and then writes your bio for
Speaker 1: you and everything. So when you're swiping right on somebody,
Speaker 1: you're literally looking at a computer generated picture of what
Speaker 1: that person is represented to be.
Speaker 3: And that's what the world is coming to with all
Speaker 3: the chat, GPT and all that stuff. But I think
Speaker 3: you're going to find out pretty quickly when you actually
Speaker 3: get in a room with somebody or you sit down
Speaker 3: to have a conversation that they're not who they claim
Speaker 3: to be and.
Speaker 2: You can tell that.
Speaker 1: So what do you say to the critic of this
Speaker 1: podcast that there would there would be someone that actually
Speaker 1: there was a TikTok that went viral of me talking
Speaker 1: about this from this podcast, and then there was the
Speaker 1: thing that it went viral. Also was a couple, specifically girls.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was ever a guy that did it,
Speaker 1: but specifically girls that we're saying because here's the deal,
Speaker 1: I said, instead of a dating app, I would for
Speaker 1: recommendation of a friend or a family member or someone
Speaker 1: at work that says, hey, there's a girl or there's
Speaker 1: a guy that I know that I would like to
Speaker 1: set you up on a date, and that This person
Speaker 1: just went off on me saying, I don't have any friends,
Speaker 1: no one works with me that's compatible, and my family
Speaker 1: doesn't know anybody, or I'm a strange from my family
Speaker 1: and I don't trust my family. And so she was
Speaker 1: like doing a duet on TikTok, you know where it's
Speaker 1: like split screen, and she was watching me talk and
Speaker 1: she was like throwing up her hands saying, I don't
Speaker 1: have any of that stuff.
Speaker 2: What about church?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think I mentioned that, but she probably
Speaker 1: didn't go to church, but she was getting all angry
Speaker 1: that saying. She was saying, dating apps is my only move,
Speaker 1: That's all I have, So don't you take that away
Speaker 1: from me?
Speaker 3: Well, and there are exceptions to every rule. I mean,
Speaker 3: there are people that have probably been married or will
Speaker 3: be married twenty thirty years from a dating app forty
Speaker 3: years whatever, And there are exceptions. I think that can happen.
Speaker 3: It's just probably not the norm. I think people use
Speaker 3: it to hook up most of the time, and they
Speaker 3: I think with a dating app, you're looking basically at
Speaker 3: just what you want to see. You're looking at the
Speaker 3: outward appearance. You're looking at what looks good on paper
Speaker 3: and you're not truly seeing the person that they are.
Speaker 3: And I would I would almost say like it would
Speaker 3: be better to do like one of those speed dating
Speaker 3: things where you're actually in a room and you just
Speaker 3: jump from table to table, because you actually have a
Speaker 3: conversation with each person and get to know them and
Speaker 3: get to see them, rather than just like swiping through
Speaker 3: and going, oh, she's cute.
Speaker 2: He's not.
Speaker 3: It's like it's just so surface level to me. But also,
Speaker 3: I didn't grow up in that generation of that's kind
Speaker 3: of what it is now. That's all people do now
Speaker 3: is basically date through dating apps.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and I hear the people that say, listen,
Speaker 1: I work all day long, I get off work and
Speaker 1: I come home and I don't I don't have a
Speaker 1: bar or a restaurant or a movie theater that I
Speaker 1: can go. I don't have any friends. My best option
Speaker 1: at finding someone is going to a dating app. And
Speaker 1: then a lot of people say it's worked for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's worked for me, and we're happily married, So I
Speaker 1: totally get it. So there's specifically in this question, this
Speaker 1: is Zachary saying this Christian dating apps? Does that help
Speaker 1: or is that still opening up for catfishing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we're all, we're all, we're still sinners and
Speaker 3: we're still fleshly. So even a Christian dating app is
Speaker 3: not going to be the perfect app. You know, there
Speaker 3: are the ones that they're kind of quoted, the sleazy
Speaker 3: ones like the Tender, And then you think you're going
Speaker 3: to go to a Christian app, but it could just
Speaker 3: be a person a guy pretending a guy or girl
Speaker 3: pretending to be a Christian.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't.
Speaker 3: You don't truly know that they're Christian until you see
Speaker 3: the fruits of their life, until you see them actually
Speaker 3: walking with the Lord.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 3: I can write all day that I'm a Christian on
Speaker 3: an app, but you're not going to know that that's
Speaker 3: true unless you hang out with me.
Speaker 1: So what are you going to say yes or no
Speaker 1: to dating apps? To this question? Read the question again, Hey,
Speaker 1: mister Smith, vague question. Just wondering what is your opinion
Speaker 1: on dating apps, specifically Christian dating apps.
Speaker 3: I think you need to be careful. I think I
Speaker 3: think you need to guard your heart. I wouldn't say
Speaker 3: don't do it. I wouldn't you know, because there you
Speaker 3: could meet the level of your life. On a dating app,
Speaker 3: I would say, be careful, guard your heart.
Speaker 1: And just go in with caution and get in person
Speaker 1: as soon as possible. Try to set something up in
Speaker 1: person way quicker than you would be comfortable with, because
Speaker 1: you don't want to sit there and chat too long
Speaker 1: online because you could be completely wasting your time. The
Speaker 1: other thing I would say, too, just in general for people,
Speaker 1: is this is going to come as a shock probably,
Speaker 1: but you know, you might need to lower your standards
Speaker 1: a little bit on what you think you deserve and
Speaker 1: work more on who you would want to be for
Speaker 1: someone that would who is the person that would want
Speaker 1: to date you? And then I just still didn't say that, right,
Speaker 1: be the person that you would want someone to be
Speaker 1: attracted to, Yeah, Right, so that you will attract that
Speaker 1: kind of person if you consistently try to become the
Speaker 1: person that you want to attract. Yeah, And if we
Speaker 1: work on that and stop stop thinking that we have
Speaker 1: to have this the ultimate standard at day one. Because
Speaker 1: the ultimate standard and someone that's that's very compatible. I'll
Speaker 1: never say the word soulmate, but someone that's very compatible.
Speaker 1: You might not know that from a profile picture, or
Speaker 1: from a bio, or from a chat, or even from
Speaker 1: one coffee. But seven, eight, nine years down the road,
Speaker 1: you might say this person is so compatible. I'm so
Speaker 1: in love with this person. And I would have missed
Speaker 1: it at day one because I had some supermodel standard
Speaker 1: or some Harvard grad standard, or somebody that has this
Speaker 1: kind of job or that maybe doesn't have a kid,
Speaker 1: and I found this guy who does have a kid,
Speaker 1: And you start eliminating what could be someone very compatible
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good advice. I agree. You can just swipe
Speaker 2: right past them exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, let's that was a long time in that question.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the next one. Here says, are there
Speaker 1: difficult things in my life that have no purpose other
Speaker 1: than bringing glory to God? That's the subject. That's the subject.
Speaker 1: One says, Hey Granger, thanks for being Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for this podcast. I love listening to you. It's continually
Speaker 1: encouraged me. Here's my question. Bible verses like Romans eleven
Speaker 1: thirty six and Isaiah forty three seven talk about how
Speaker 1: our purpose as humans is to bring God glory and
Speaker 1: this is why he created us. Romans eight twenty eight
Speaker 1: also talks about how God works out everything for good
Speaker 1: in the lives of believers. In light of this, well,
Speaker 1: everything I experience in my life, even the hard things,
Speaker 1: ultimately lead up to something I like and feel good about,
Speaker 1: or just that they will lead up to something that
Speaker 1: brings God glory. In other words, do any of the
Speaker 1: difficult things that happen in my life have no other
Speaker 1: person purpose than to bring God glory? Or am I
Speaker 1: guaranteed to feel happy about them all someday and feel
Speaker 1: like experiencing them was worth it in the end. I
Speaker 1: don't know if any of this makes sense by the
Speaker 1: way it does, but that's something that I've been wondering
Speaker 1: about for a long time, and nobody I talk to
Speaker 1: seems to have an answer. I do. Thanks again for
Speaker 1: all the things you do to bring us the word
Speaker 1: of God in a humblin on his way. Thanks for
Speaker 1: your amazing testimony. I praise God for all He's done
Speaker 1: in your life. Sincerely, Naomi. It's a great question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the question, and it's a legitimate question, and
Speaker 1: so let me I read it pretty roughly, So let
Speaker 1: me just kind of say what Naomi's saying. She's saying
Speaker 1: that as she reads the Bible. She's seeing that correctly.
Speaker 1: She's seeing correctly that our purpose, the reason we were
Speaker 1: created and our purpose here on earth is to bring
Speaker 1: God glory and all that we do to glorify Him.
Speaker 1: And so she's saying, cool, good, thank you God, thanks
Speaker 1: for that. Where do I fit in this picture? Like,
Speaker 1: I'm happy that I'm created for a purpose and that
Speaker 1: purpose is to give you glory. Mister narcissist, right, But
Speaker 1: do I get anything out of this? I get it? Okay.
Speaker 1: First of all, God is not a narcissist. That's not
Speaker 1: what you said. But this is what we start to
Speaker 1: figure out as we continue to read through the entire
Speaker 1: whole canon of the Scripture. And that's why, and I'm
Speaker 1: by no means accusing you of this at all, but
Speaker 1: as we read cover to cover of our Bibles, Genesis
Speaker 1: all the way to Revelation, and continue to read through
Speaker 1: it year by year, and the purpose of that, and
Speaker 1: I've said on this podcast before, is to learn who
Speaker 1: God is. That's that's first and foremost. Who is God?
Speaker 1: And we find him, as revealed in the Scripture. When
Speaker 1: we begin to find him, we begin to know him.
Speaker 1: When we begin to know him, we and can anticipate
Speaker 1: what he likes and dislikes, hates and loves throughout the
Speaker 1: course of our own lives as we apply it to ourselves.
Speaker 1: What am I talking about. I'm talking about in the
Speaker 1: case of my dad, who's been passed away since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: Still I knew my Dad so well from living with
Speaker 1: him and listening to him and watching him and observing
Speaker 1: him that I know to this day. If I go
Speaker 1: to a restaurant, when I open up a menu, I
Speaker 1: know what Dad would like, and then I know what
Speaker 1: Dad would not like. When I'm talking to someone and
Speaker 1: they have an opinion about something, I know if Dad
Speaker 1: would agree with that opinion or disagree with that opinion,
Speaker 1: and that goes on and on and on in the
Speaker 1: same way. That's really what our purposes in reading the
Speaker 1: Bible is to learn our heavenly Father in the same way,
Speaker 1: so that we don't need specific thick answers to specific
Speaker 1: things in life. Instead, just like I don't need a
Speaker 1: specific answer to what Dad would say about a certain
Speaker 1: person in a certain situation in their life, I go,
Speaker 1: I know, in a general sense, in a broad sense,
Speaker 1: exactly how Dad would feel like it feel about with
Speaker 1: anything in this region. And that's how we learn God,
Speaker 1: and we could walk through life with confidence the more
Speaker 1: we read the Bible, of knowing what God would be
Speaker 1: pleased about or displeased about our need or want from us. Okay,
Speaker 1: So to your question about bringing God glory, what we
Speaker 1: do know as we begin to know Him and as
Speaker 1: we begin to read the Bible, is that bringing God glory,
Speaker 1: which is our purpose, is not at odds with our
Speaker 1: happiness or our joy. In fact, I said this in
Speaker 1: the sermon recently. In fact, it is the source of it.
Speaker 1: When we bring God glory, which is why we're created.
Speaker 1: When we do that, we find that the source of
Speaker 1: that glory that we bring him, whether it's the way
Speaker 1: we act or walk, or say, or worship or enjoy
Speaker 1: sunrise and sunset and the beautiful stars and the moon
Speaker 1: and the trees and the rain, and when we see
Speaker 1: this and little babies and little puppies and the grand canyon.
Speaker 1: When we bring him glory and see his glory and
Speaker 1: absorb his glory and feel his glory, that becomes the
Speaker 1: source of our joy and our happiness. And the more
Speaker 1: we do it, the more we worship, and the closer
Speaker 1: we get to that purpose of glorifying Him. The more
Speaker 1: we feel it, and the more we need less of
Speaker 1: this earth, and the less of all the things that
Speaker 1: are false joys, fake joys, counterfeit joys. You know, you
Speaker 1: get so many things in this life for a counterfeit joy.
Speaker 1: It's a counterfeit happiness. It fades, it's gone. Texas Aggies.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm excited about watching them play this weekend,
Speaker 1: and if they win, I'll be happy. But it's a
Speaker 1: it's a counterfeit joy because it goes away in an instant.
Speaker 1: When they lose the next week, right, and they could
Speaker 1: win the national championship, it's gone the next year. Its counterfeit.
Speaker 1: But when we glorify God, when we worship him like
Speaker 1: we would worship Aggie football, we worship God in that way.
Speaker 1: He never lets us down. In that way, it never
Speaker 1: comes back as counterfeit. It just grows and stacks joy
Speaker 1: upon joy upon joy. But been using this parable so
Speaker 1: much lately, the Matthew thirteen forty four parable of the
Speaker 1: hidden treasure when it says the Kingdom of Heaven Jesus talking,
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure in a field
Speaker 1: which a man found and covered up. Then in his
Speaker 1: joy he goes and sells all that he owns to
Speaker 1: buy that field. There is that keyword right there. Joy.
Speaker 1: He finds this treasure, and in his joy he gives
Speaker 1: up the pleasures, the counterfeit pleasures, the counterfeit joys, and
Speaker 1: goes all in on God. That is what we get
Speaker 1: when we glorify him. Your glorifying God is not at
Speaker 1: odds with your.
Speaker 3: Joy, Yeah, she asked, She asked, in there is all
Speaker 3: of this going to ultimately lead to my happiness? She said,
Speaker 3: something along those lines. And no, not necessarily here on
Speaker 3: this earth.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 3: Your suffering might not lead to happiness here on earth.
Speaker 3: You might not see a certain situation or a certain
Speaker 3: thing redeemed this side of heaven. But I can promise
Speaker 3: you it will be worth it on the other side
Speaker 3: and we see Christ face to face.
Speaker 1: But you will have peace here through it.
Speaker 3: You can't have peace through Yeah with Jesus, Yes, that
Speaker 3: is promise. You can have peace and joy in the
Speaker 3: midst of your deepest pain. Now, could something necessarily be
Speaker 3: redeemed this side of heaven? The Lord will do it, it
Speaker 3: says in First Peter five ten. After you have suffered
Speaker 3: at a little while I myself will will strengthen, redeem, reestablish,
Speaker 3: and I think and strengthen you as the verse. But
Speaker 3: a lot of times people will still suffer until they
Speaker 3: go home. But on the other side, yes, it will
Speaker 3: be worth it. Everything that you've faced, every horrible every
Speaker 3: horrible thing that you went through, every trauma, every little
Speaker 3: amount of suffering is preparing for you an eternal weight
Speaker 3: of glory beyond all comparison. And it will so be
Speaker 3: worth it. And this life is a vapor and I
Speaker 3: can't promise you happiness. Like Granger said, this side of heaven,
Speaker 3: you can have joy, but joys a person, and it's Jesus.
Speaker 3: But you might not be eternally happy and joyful until
Speaker 3: we get to the other side, until we get home
Speaker 3: to heaven.
Speaker 1: Read the Book of John. There's so much gold in
Speaker 1: there with Jesus talking, especially in chapter sixteen when he
Speaker 1: ends up saying ends the chapter by saying, I tell
Speaker 1: you these things so that you will have peace in
Speaker 1: this world. You'll have trouble, tribulation, persecution, suffering, you'll have it.
Speaker 1: But take heart, I've overcome the world. That's where the
Speaker 1: peace comes from. So you go yeah, I'm having suffering.
Speaker 1: I'm having problems, but oh man, but he's got the
Speaker 1: whole world in his hands. So through that there's the rest.
Speaker 1: There's the peace, there's the joy, there's the hope. And
Speaker 1: with those things equipped in you peace, hope, rest, love, joy.
Speaker 1: When you have those, you have the strength to overcome
Speaker 1: through the suffering, because you're going to suffer whether or
Speaker 1: not you have those things or not as a human,
Speaker 1: whether or not you have Jesus or not, you're going
Speaker 1: to suffer. That's just part of being a human. But
Speaker 1: you could be equipped with those those powerful things, those
Speaker 1: fruits of the spirit, with your faith in Jesus. Let's
Speaker 1: hit one more and let's take a break. Let me
Speaker 1: making these questions. I'm sorry. I'm sorry if someone tuned
Speaker 1: in to figure out how to get a girlfriend or not.
Speaker 1: Here's another subject, says, is there a right religion? Hey, Granger,
Speaker 1: I have been raised Catholic, but now that I'm in my
Speaker 1: thirties and I have a family in my own I
Speaker 1: have seemed to stray away from the Catholic faith. I
Speaker 1: have not lost my faith in God, but just how
Speaker 1: I practice my religion, I feel that I'm drawn closer
Speaker 1: to God and feel better as a human being listening
Speaker 1: to sermons from either non denominational pastors, Baptist pastors, and
Speaker 1: even your sermons that you have been doing, which by
Speaker 1: the way, are Baptist. My question is is there a
Speaker 1: right religion? Am I turning my back on God if
Speaker 1: I think about converting to another religion? Thank you for
Speaker 1: your music over the years. My family and I enjoy
Speaker 1: your concerts and I absolutely looking forward to what the
Speaker 1: future holds for you. Mark. All right, So Mark this
Speaker 1: this is one of the problems with just reading an
Speaker 1: email and not being enough on the podcast, because we
Speaker 1: would want to dig in a little bit and say, well,
Speaker 1: what are you defining as religion? Because so far everything
Speaker 1: that you've listed here is denomination denomination based on trusting Christ,
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. So if you're
Speaker 1: talking about religion as far as Buddhism or Hinduism or Islam,
Speaker 1: we're talking about fundamentally different kinds of religion. If you're
Speaker 1: just talking about denominations, Man, I've been doing this deep,
Speaker 1: deep dive on C. S. Lewis as you know, like
Speaker 1: a I've got like literally twenty books right now, that
Speaker 1: I'm having to go through with C. S. Lewis based
Speaker 1: on I'm writing a research paper on C. S. Lewis
Speaker 1: and his apologetic method it in one of his books
Speaker 1: called Mere Christianity Anyway. In the book Mere Christianity, he's
Speaker 1: it was originally a radio broadcast for World War Two
Speaker 1: in Great Britain, and he was making a case for
Speaker 1: Christianity without even really talking about Christianity in that term.
Speaker 1: He was talking about it in a broad sense to
Speaker 1: anyone that was searching for who is God? And has
Speaker 1: God revealed himself to us? And when it comes to
Speaker 1: certain third, second, third, fourth tier doctrines and denominations, he
Speaker 1: said it this way. Look, my book Mere Christianity is
Speaker 1: trying to get you into the hallway. I want to
Speaker 1: get you into the hallway. And once you're in there,
Speaker 1: there are doors all down the hallway, and within those
Speaker 1: doors are rooms with food and fireplaces. That's what he said,
Speaker 1: something like that, with nice fireplaces and tables set and
Speaker 1: food and you can go according to what food you like, right,
Speaker 1: so you can go and sit down like I like
Speaker 1: this room. I like the way the chairs are, I
Speaker 1: like the way the place mats are, and the tablecloth,
Speaker 1: and I really like eating roast beef. And then a
Speaker 1: vegetarian gets in there and goes, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: really into eating beef, but I love a good What
Speaker 1: does the vegetarian need? A salad? Like a salad? And
Speaker 1: I like this room a little bit better. It's more
Speaker 1: vibe for me. And so basically C. S. Lewis is saying,
Speaker 1: these denominations, really they're not disagreeing on a major doctrine,
Speaker 1: which is who is God has revealed in Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: How are we redeemed, restored, forgiven, renewed, reborn through the
Speaker 1: cross and the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross,
Speaker 1: which is called penal substitution, which is Christ took on
Speaker 1: the wrath of God himself and bore our sins on
Speaker 1: the cross so that we could be set free if
Speaker 1: we believe in him. So that's a first here doctrine.
Speaker 1: You cannot disagree on that or you are not a Christian.
Speaker 1: Everything else after that it's just a place matt and
Speaker 1: a nice fire and a meal. And so I and
Speaker 1: I think it's really neat. C. S. Lewis. Now I
Speaker 1: have strong opinions about second third tier, fourth year doctrines.
Speaker 1: I have those opinions, and I'd be willing to talk
Speaker 1: about it, but that's they're not selvific. They don't save
Speaker 1: you or not. Only faith in Jesus does that in
Speaker 1: realizing the the power of the Cross and what it
Speaker 1: means for humanity. Who God is as revealed in his son. Okay,
Speaker 1: So everything else that you're asking really is Halloway questions.
Speaker 1: And so I think that's what you mean about religion. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think you mean is there a right religion
Speaker 1: when it comes to Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism, is
Speaker 1: it all the same? That's not what you're asking.
Speaker 2: No, Well, if you are, it's not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you are, If you are asking that question,
Speaker 1: just briefly, none of those other religions would agree either. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that every religion, no religion. Let me say it
Speaker 1: this way, none of the major religions will will agree
Speaker 1: that all paths lead to God. They're all going to
Speaker 1: say this is the path. That's a different question on
Speaker 1: the podcast. Happy to answer that at another time. But
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what you're as.
Speaker 2: I think it was more denominational.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is like you said, you need to agree
Speaker 3: on self efit on things that are that are important
Speaker 3: and needed for salvation. After that, it's like you said,
Speaker 3: people sometimes disagree on baptism or alcohol or things like that.
Speaker 3: Those are different things that Granger said, or like the
Speaker 3: different doors that you can go in to get into
Speaker 3: deeper theologically, you need to know that you're saved by
Speaker 3: grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone.
Speaker 1: And don't don't use that word convert like that's the
Speaker 1: wrong word to use. That's what you said, Am I
Speaker 1: turning my back on God? If I think about converting
Speaker 1: to another religion? Don't that's a wrong word. If you're
Speaker 1: talking about going from Presbyterian to Baptist or whatever, Baptist
Speaker 1: and non denominational, if that's IF's that's a different discussion,
Speaker 1: and we could have deeper discussions on that. But that
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with conversion. Conversion happens when you're
Speaker 1: dead in your trespasses and you're reborn, your eyes are
Speaker 1: now opened, and you are a Christian. That is conversion.
Speaker 1: You can't do that. You can't decide to do that.
Speaker 1: God does that, And Jesus said in John three, no
Speaker 1: one enters the Kingdom of Heaven without being reborn. You
Speaker 1: must be born again, is what Jesus said. A baby
Speaker 1: can't be born, It can't make himself be born, right,
Speaker 1: you just are. It happens outside of yourself. Nothing bores
Speaker 1: itself when he was the word nothing births itself. You know,
Speaker 1: something cannot birth itself. So I don't think that's what
Speaker 1: you mean. And I hope this clears it up. Let's
Speaker 1: take a break and be right back. Go ahead.
Speaker 2: Just want to say quickly, if you're struggling with that,
Speaker 2: just pray. The Bible says.
Speaker 3: The Bible says, anyone who is seeking wisdom to ask
Speaker 3: ask for it. Get on your knees and ask the
Speaker 3: Lord to reveal things to you. Open up your Bible
Speaker 3: and begin to read.
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Speaker 1: o five continuing here with the next question, subject line says,
Speaker 1: the Book of Enoch, how do you grang your My
Speaker 1: name is Joshua. This is my second time asking you
Speaker 1: a question. The first response was so amazing, I figured
Speaker 1: i'd ask you another one because of all your knowledge.
Speaker 1: The Book of was once in the Bible, however it
Speaker 1: was removed. I just wanted to ask you what you
Speaker 1: think of about this book and if or not it
Speaker 1: is scripture. Ps. Your book is amazing. It brought a
Speaker 1: tear to my eye. Thank you for being so vulnerable.
Speaker 1: Your words mean a lot, Joshua, Thank you, Joshua, appreciate
Speaker 1: you man. Thanks for also thanks for reading like a river.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so let's talk about the Book of Enoch.
Speaker 1: But maybe not just that book. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: books that were that were in dispute and still are
Speaker 1: maybe to this day. The Book of Enoch is one
Speaker 1: of the newer ones that has been in dispute because
Speaker 1: I believe it was discovered more recent than most and
Speaker 1: so then it's been in like scholar debates as of lately.
Speaker 1: I believe it came up recently, like within the last
Speaker 1: fifty years, there was a there was a lot of
Speaker 1: books and about the discovery of the Book of Enoch
Speaker 1: and why it was purposely left out of the canon.
Speaker 1: So yeah, happy to discuss. And I love love this stuff.
Speaker 1: I love history of the Bible. I love the canon,
Speaker 1: the formation of the Canon. I love the formation of
Speaker 1: the Four Gospels. It's really fascinating to think about the
Speaker 1: four Gospels themselves, like let let alone the Old Testament
Speaker 1: and the Book of Enoch and stuff like that. But
Speaker 1: why are there four? Matthew Mark Luke and John Man.
Speaker 1: That is such a such a crazy, deep deep well
Speaker 1: just about.
Speaker 2: To say that you're a deep well about this, And yeah, and.
Speaker 1: I've read a lot of books about apologetic types of
Speaker 1: books about the Canon itself and the sixty six books,
Speaker 1: and even saying sixty six. There's some people that are like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not sick. There's more in that.
Speaker 2: There's more in the Catholic Yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so we you know, happy to have that
Speaker 1: discussion in another time as well. But what we find
Speaker 1: as in twenty twenty three is a great time to
Speaker 1: talk about what books belong in the canon or not,
Speaker 1: because we have now compiled a lot more evidence over
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand archaeological digs. We have more ancient manuscript
Speaker 1: fragments of the Bible and complete pieces of different books
Speaker 1: or different scripture than any other ancient document combined times
Speaker 1: a lot. And I'm talking about if you know ancient
Speaker 1: documents like Homer or Aristotle or Plato or those kind
Speaker 1: of ancient documents that we'll read in school, and you
Speaker 1: look at it like this is a fact, like Homer
Speaker 1: wrote this. Wow, the odds that Homer wrote what we
Speaker 1: think he wrote are so so much more obscure than
Speaker 1: if Moses wrote Deuteronomy, or if the apostle John wrote Revelation,
Speaker 1: or if if if Isaiah wrote the Great Isaiah Scroll.
Speaker 1: I'd try to do the biggest sweep of fifteen hundred years.
Speaker 1: I could right there And what I mean is, we
Speaker 1: don't even have that much evidence that Homer actually wrote that,
Speaker 1: but people believe, but people believe it. Maybe he did,
Speaker 1: he probably did. But the fact is that the I
Speaker 1: don't know much about Homer, but the I do know
Speaker 1: that the evidence the fragments of the ancient documents are
Speaker 1: so few and so far few in between, or whatever
Speaker 1: the phrase is. And the timeframe of when we have
Speaker 1: found fragments of Homer, it's so long after it was
Speaker 1: supposedly originally written that you could easily say, well, I
Speaker 1: don't think he actually wrote that. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to the Bible, we have so much more mounting evidence
Speaker 1: and it's pretty incredible, and it's the most researched book
Speaker 1: in the planet, and we have the most evidence, more
Speaker 1: than any other ancient document. I read that it would
Speaker 1: be if you stacked all of our fragments up, it
Speaker 1: would be miles high as much as we found. So
Speaker 1: how do you know what is included and what's not?
Speaker 1: And was there some one council or maybe some constantine
Speaker 1: or one emperor that decided I'm going to decide this
Speaker 1: is what goes in here, and I'm going to do
Speaker 1: it because I want to get I want to gain power,
Speaker 1: or I want to gain control over people. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to make sure that these books aren't included, and
Speaker 1: these are because these make me look better in my kingdom.
Speaker 1: Is that what happened or was it a council of
Speaker 1: people that came together in Nicea in the fourth century
Speaker 1: that said, Okay, let's randomly look at Israel and look
Speaker 1: at all the pieces of literature, and let's pull together
Speaker 1: the ones that we want, and we'll call it the
Speaker 1: b I, B L E. And we'll make it. You know,
Speaker 1: they no, none of that is true. That's what people
Speaker 1: want to think it's true. But we have writings that
Speaker 1: go way before the fourth century of people reading scripture,
Speaker 1: and starting with the Gospels, you have them as Jesus
Speaker 1: is quoting Psalms, He's crediting Psalms to David, he is
Speaker 1: crediting Isaiah to his writings, and Jeremiah and Moses writing Genesis,
Speaker 1: and so we have connections. The Bible is self testifying,
Speaker 1: It testifies to itself through its own its own authors.
Speaker 1: And then we see that play out as apologist and
Speaker 1: early Church fathers were writing in the same the same
Speaker 1: lifetime as others. So we have the apostle John was
Speaker 1: the last writer of the Bible. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of evidence to believe that one of John's students was Polycarp,
Speaker 1: and one of polycarp students was Irenaeus. And these guys
Speaker 1: are writing in the same lifetime of other eyewitnesses that
Speaker 1: were there with Jesus. And that goes back and back
Speaker 1: and back and back and back to David writing the
Speaker 1: Psalms in the minor prophets and the major prophets. So
Speaker 1: we have so much testifying evidence to why we have
Speaker 1: authorship for certain books. And then we come to certain
Speaker 1: things like the Gospel of Peter, the Gospel of Mary,
Speaker 1: the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Enoch, where we go, oh,
Speaker 1: hang on, there's a major gap here. The Gospel of Thomas.
Speaker 1: We don't have any ancient fragments of that. We don't
Speaker 1: have anybody talking Ironaeus, Polycarp, Apostle John. No one is
Speaker 1: talking about the Gospel of Thomas like they did everything else.
Speaker 1: No one is talking about the things that Thomas talks
Speaker 1: about that are the apparent Thomas talks about in the
Speaker 1: Gospel Thomas. And we go, hang on a second, this
Speaker 1: is introducing new ideas. The Greek literary style is different
Speaker 1: than the other four gospels. That wasn't the style of
Speaker 1: conversation that the disciples had. We don't find as many
Speaker 1: of the fragments, and we have some people actually speaking out,
Speaker 1: like iron As speaking out against the Gospel Thomas, saying
Speaker 1: this is heresy, this is a fake. So then what
Speaker 1: happens is a couple hundred years go by, there's people going, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a fake. Of course, why there were humans,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't there be fakes. You would imagine there would
Speaker 1: be fake books that people write and credit it to
Speaker 1: an author it's not themselves, right, and so of course
Speaker 1: that you would imagine in humanity that there would be
Speaker 1: books that are coming out that are plagiarizing somebody else
Speaker 1: for something. So we go back and we read these historians.
Speaker 1: Josephus is another one, and we can go, oh, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of evidence to say that Thomas did
Speaker 1: not write this book. So does everybody vote this this
Speaker 1: Thomas book is fake? And everyone's like, yeah, I did
Speaker 1: my research here. This guy's like yeah, I did my
Speaker 1: research here. I talked to so and so he said
Speaker 1: Thomas didn't even write he talked to Thomas whatever, and
Speaker 1: so they go. Book of Thomas is out, the Gospel
Speaker 1: of Thomas is out. Mary, same thing, Peter, same thing,
Speaker 1: Book of Enoch, same thing. There, these books are not
Speaker 1: in the Bible today in twenty twenty three, not because
Speaker 1: of some conspiracy, not because of some old king or
Speaker 1: some emperor or some secret council. It's literally because historians
Speaker 1: have come together and go, that's uh, that's a that's
Speaker 1: that's a false book. We can we can verify through
Speaker 1: multiple sources that that's not the right person that wrote that.
Speaker 1: And so we have to trust that the spirit that
Speaker 1: these books are in spirit motivated, and we can go, yeah,
Speaker 1: the spirit is also motivating these wise men saying men
Speaker 1: women saying no, we're not going to trust with these
Speaker 1: books supposed to be here. And that was a long
Speaker 1: goodness s grangers, shut up, move on.
Speaker 2: You're like a deep oil of history and I love it.
Speaker 1: The next next subject says, how to move on. That's
Speaker 1: a good piece of advice for me. Move on, man,
Speaker 1: shut up. Hey granger. My name is Jose I'm twenty
Speaker 1: three years old. I still can't get over my ex
Speaker 1: Here we go, there's a good one now, we're back
Speaker 1: to the good stuff. Still can't go over get over
Speaker 1: my ex. It's been two years since the breakup, and
Speaker 1: I can't move on. I have her on social media
Speaker 1: and she's the first one I see on everything that
Speaker 1: I post. She's the first one to see everything I post.
Speaker 1: I've been on dates, but it just doesn't feel the same.
Speaker 1: Can you give me any advice. I have read your
Speaker 1: and it has helped me. I think he meant I've
Speaker 1: read your book. Sorry, there wasn't a lot of punctuation
Speaker 1: in that that, so I let me say it again.
Speaker 1: This guy's Jose and he's twenty three. He can't get
Speaker 1: over ax, his ax. It's been two years since the breakup.
Speaker 1: Can't move on. He has her on social media and
Speaker 1: she's the first one to see everything that he posts.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming because she likes it or views it or something.
Speaker 1: He's been on dates didn't feel the same, Bro, Jose, blocker.
Speaker 3: Blocker blocker, you're causing yourself more damage, and especially after
Speaker 3: if it's been two years, that's a long time to
Speaker 3: stay stuck, and you're just hurting yourself by still continuing
Speaker 3: to follow her or look at her, or let her
Speaker 3: look at you.
Speaker 2: Or post things because you want her to get jealous
Speaker 2: or whatever. The things in the games that people play,
Speaker 2: you got to just delete it. Will it will help
Speaker 2: you keep your sanity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you're going on these dates and it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel the same because you literally just looked at her Instagram, Yeah,
Speaker 1: right before you walked into the new date. So you're
Speaker 1: not gonna heal until you stop seeing her every day
Speaker 1: and you stop worrying about what she's doing. This was
Speaker 1: not a problem they had in the nineties or eighties
Speaker 1: or seventies or any year before that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think Sam Hunt has a song
Speaker 3: about that, something about breaking up to the nineties.
Speaker 1: Breaking up was easy in the nineties. Yeah. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: there's a there's so many country songs that I love
Speaker 1: that I that I hear sometimes from the nineties or
Speaker 1: eighties and I just think, Wow, that's not possible anymore.
Speaker 1: There's this old song no one knows it, but it's
Speaker 1: from the nineties by this band called Blackhawk, and it's
Speaker 1: called Postmark Birmingham, and it's about he got this letter
Speaker 1: from her. She left and he got a letter and
Speaker 1: she says, I'm sorry, I'm moving on. Basically, saying it's
Speaker 1: it's not you, it's me, And the only evidence he
Speaker 1: has is it's postmarked Birmingham.
Speaker 2: It's such a good songs.
Speaker 1: The only thing he knows about where she is, and
Speaker 1: he can't understand because she doesn't have any family there,
Speaker 1: no relatives there, she's never even been there, she's never
Speaker 1: even been to Alabama whatever. And then Garth brooks, what
Speaker 1: she's doing now, what she's doing now is tearing me apart,
Speaker 1: filling up my mind. And he has no idea what
Speaker 1: she's doing.
Speaker 2: And now we know everything everybody's doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of those those songs, and I
Speaker 1: hear them and I just think it's impossible because now,
Speaker 1: if you date today in twenty twenty three, if you
Speaker 1: date somebody, you're probably always going to know what they're doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So you gotta walk her, Yeah, you gotta block it.
Speaker 2: You gotta try to find a hobby. Yeah, try to
Speaker 2: find something else to pour yourself into.
Speaker 1: Every now and then Garth brooks, every now and then,
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's a good song. The next one says
Speaker 1: subject I'm trying to meet people. Hey, Grangeery, my name
Speaker 1: is Blake. I'm eighteen from Minnesota. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: say thank you for being an inspiration in my life
Speaker 1: as well as my buddies. I've been listening to you
Speaker 1: since I was nine. Just wanted to ask you how
Speaker 1: I should go about interacting with new girls since most
Speaker 1: of them since most of what I do is hang
Speaker 1: out with my buddies on the farm and work. And
Speaker 1: I know I'm still somewhat young, but I feel like
Speaker 1: I should start being around more people and open myself
Speaker 1: up to a future slash girlfriend slash wife. Thanks for
Speaker 1: what you do. Also, I saw you performing Goodhre. It
Speaker 1: was great. Lincoln was with me and Good Hu and
Speaker 1: he did the gritty on the stage.
Speaker 3: Sometimes he does the gritty and other times he's so.
Speaker 2: Scared to go on stage.
Speaker 1: Ye stage fright Blake eighteen years old. Man, dude, first react.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my first reaction. This podcast really
Speaker 1: is like driving down in the truck down a country
Speaker 1: road and you're riding Shotgun and we got the windows
Speaker 1: down and you say, man, could I ask you a question?
Speaker 1: And you say, how do I go about interacting with
Speaker 1: new girls since most of what I do is just
Speaker 1: hang out with my buddies on the farm and work.
Speaker 1: My first reaction, like knee jerk reaction, is bro, you're eighteen.
Speaker 1: Just keep doing that. Keep doing that for a while.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about how to interact with new girls. That
Speaker 1: might be hard to do because your brain is there's
Speaker 1: like things firing in your brain that's going you need
Speaker 1: to look at a girl, you need to talk to
Speaker 1: a girl. You need that's natural, that's your biology. It's
Speaker 1: coming out saying, hey, it's time to get going on
Speaker 1: this girl thing. You don't necessarily have to listen to
Speaker 1: that at eighteen, though. I would much rather this email
Speaker 1: than an email of someone eighteen going this, I've been
Speaker 1: with this girl for six years, she's going off to college.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I love her, she's
Speaker 1: of my life, she's pregnant, whatever. Like. The list goes
Speaker 1: on and on of emails I wouldn't want to see.
Speaker 1: But the one I do like is the one that says,
Speaker 1: I'm eighteen, I work on the farm, I hang out
Speaker 1: with my buddies. Should I start thinking about girls right now? Dude?
Speaker 1: I love that email.
Speaker 2: And there's there's we don't know too much.
Speaker 3: We don't know what school he goes to or if
Speaker 3: he's in school right now, or if his buddies have girlfriends,
Speaker 3: or it's it's kind of hard without getting some more information.
Speaker 1: My dad used to always take My dad raised three boys,
Speaker 1: and he used to always tell us, guys, don't have
Speaker 1: a girlfriend, just be friends with girls, and be friends
Speaker 1: with a lot of them, but don't go steady with
Speaker 1: any of them. And I know exactly what he meant,
Speaker 1: and I would encourage the same thing with my kids,
Speaker 1: because you only get blake. You only get this chance
Speaker 1: one time to be eighteen, and it's going to fly by,
Speaker 1: and Lord willing, most of your life, most of it,
Speaker 1: you'll be with a girl. You'll be with your wife,
Speaker 1: and you'll be raising babies and grand babies, Lord Willing,
Speaker 1: you will spend the rest of your life and your
Speaker 1: roommate will be a girl. Right But the only time
Speaker 1: in your life when you're not going to have a
Speaker 1: girl and you're just gonna be with your buddies hanging
Speaker 1: out working on the farm is right now. And you're
Speaker 1: asking me how to throw all that away and go
Speaker 1: find a girl to worry about.
Speaker 3: You could invite some of your girl quote, your girl
Speaker 3: friends over to do some farm work and see if
Speaker 3: they can handle whatever kind of farm work you're doing.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing my dad said, be friends with them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and be friends with a lot of them. And Blake,
Speaker 1: here's your main question is how do I go about
Speaker 1: interacting with new girls since most of what I do
Speaker 1: is hang out with my buddies on our farm work.
Speaker 1: That's your main question. And my main answer to that,
Speaker 1: besides the fact is please just enjoy being eighteen. My
Speaker 1: main answer to you is, like Amber said, invite a
Speaker 1: group of them together with your group of boys. So
Speaker 1: you got a group of girls with a group of boys.
Speaker 1: Nobody's singled out, and you guys make a bonfire. Somebody's
Speaker 1: got to pick up a guitar. You play some guitar,
Speaker 1: You pass the guitar around, you sing along. You then
Speaker 1: get a really unique chance to watch the girls how
Speaker 1: they interact, and they watch you and how you interact.
Speaker 1: But you don't get stuck needing to know what to
Speaker 1: say or do in the moment. You learn from the outside,
Speaker 1: and you'll quickly learn things like, man, maybe next time
Speaker 1: I'll wash my shirt, like maybe next time I'll comb
Speaker 1: my hair or something. But those are really cool things
Speaker 1: that happen as these two opposite creatures get together and
Speaker 1: start socializing. You don't have to do that one on one.
Speaker 1: You could do it in groups.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, And eighteen is kind of tricky because
Speaker 3: that's about the time when girls and guys start going
Speaker 3: off to college. So even if you did kind of
Speaker 3: strike something up, you don't know if I don't know
Speaker 3: if you're gonna if you're just gonna work on the farm,
Speaker 3: which is awesome. But a girl that you might be
Speaker 3: talking to you might be getting ready to go away,
Speaker 3: so you might not want to start something up if
Speaker 3: she's about to leave. So I agree with the group thing.
Speaker 3: You can always have fun in groups.
Speaker 1: I think that's all we got. We're out of time.
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